Eric Li, a Shanghai-based venture capitalist, and Yasheng Huang, a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management, debate whether China’s continued rise will challenge the West’s certainty about the inevitable march toward democracy.

Sheri Berman, a professor at Barnard College, Columbia University, and Seth Jones, an associate director at RAND, debate the future of the Arab Spring.

Dan Drezner, a professor at Tufts University, urges Republicans to start taking foreign policy more seriously, or else they will cede this ground to Democrats for a generation.

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